Date: 15 Jul 86 00:51 PDT
From: Pavel.pa@Xerox.COM
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 86 16:36:46 pdt
From: oster%ucblapis@BERKELEY.EDU (David Phillip Oster)
franz!fizzy!jkf in Mesg 14 suggests that DESCRIBE-ARGUMENTS return a
list like:
(a b c &optional d e &rest r &key x y &allow-other-keys)
Fahlman@c.cs.cmu.edu says that a list is hard to parse and a string
should
be returned instead. Is this a joke? Where are the ":-)"s?
The function exists in Interlisp and is very useful.
....
It is the case, however, that Xerox Common Lisp stores a list just
exactly like that in every compiled function...
Pavel
Info is also lost if it is a string. Package qualifiers are needed to
tell which variables are being bound if any of the symbols in the arglist
are specvars.
...mike beckerle
Gold Hill Computers